The dynamics of income, schooling, and fertility distributions over the course of economic development
Subtitle: a human capital perspective
By: Isaac Ehrlich, Jinyoung Kim.
Contributors: Kim, Jinyoung, 1957-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10890; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10890.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Income distribution -- Developing countries.; Wages -- Effect of education on -- Developing countries.; Fertility, Human -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries.; Human capital -- Developing countries.
Description: "We develop a dynamic model of fertility and income distribution in which both are linked to the formation and distribution of human capital among families.  Our model offers a dynamic version of Becker's (1967) model of income distribution within an endogenous growth framework.  We view the population as consisting of heterogeneous families, which are subject to intra-family and inter-family interactions.  Families determine fertility, human capital formation in children, and savings.  We thus link income and fertility distributions over an entire development path, extending from a low-income, stagnant state to a self-sustaining growth regime.  In this context, we also reexamine the "Kuznets hypothesis" concerning the relation between income inequality and income growth over a transitional development period.  The paper offers new insights and supporting empirical evidence concerning the time-paths of distributional measures of fertility, educational attainments, and three income-related measures: family-income inequality, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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